Offline, a new gallery launched by digital art platform SuperRare, will host a solo exhibition of XCOPY titled Tech Won’t Save Us from December 10–19, 2025, in New York City. The show arrives as collectors reassess digital art’s long-term preservation challenges amid shifting market narratives.
The exhibition gathers works that examine mortality, identity, alienation, and the changing status of collectors in the blockchain era. XCOPY’s looping, glitch-based visual language has become a defining aesthetic within crypto art, often pairing existential anxiety with dark humor. His pieces interrogate how speculation shapes online behavior while revealing the fragility of digital identity under constant technological churn.
The exhibition’s title underscores a recurring tension in XCOPY’s practice. Blockchain offers permanence, yet cultural meaning still depends on human participation. Organizers say the show highlights the paradox of digital preservation during a period marked by platform instability and shifting collector frameworks.
A central role is played by The Doomed DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization of more than 150 member-collectors dedicated to XCOPY’s cultural legacy. Unlike traditional collectors, DAO members coordinate decisions and preservation efforts collectively, treating stewardship as an ongoing social process rather than a static ownership function.
DAO members point to works like Doom Party to illustrate this model. The piece appeared “disassembled” after the closure of the Async Art platform but was fully reconstructed using on-chain data. Organizers cite the example as proof that digital artworks ultimately persist through decentralized networks rather than through centralized platforms.
“The Doomed DAO is proud to present an XCOPY exhibition in New York, a city synonymous with art and experimentation,” said BBA, a DAO member. “We are excited to demonstrate how a decentralized group can curate and deliver ambitious cultural projects in the physical world.”
SuperRare’s curation team echoed the significance of the collaboration. “With over 150 member-collectors dedicated to the stewardship and cultural life of XCOPY’s work, this partnership allows us to bring together some of his most defining pieces across eras, platforms, and formats,” said An Rong, Director of Curation at SuperRare. She added that the exhibition situates XCOPY’s influence within both SuperRare’s history and the wider digital art landscape.
The Offline Gallery show reflects broader conversations inside Web3 about cultural longevity, collector responsibility, and the real limits of technical guarantees. DAO curators argue that blockchain can preserve data but cannot preserve context or meaning without active community engagement.
As MP9X, curator and member of The Doomed DAO, noted, “Code doesn’t save culture, people do.”
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